Week One:

• Attendance
• Introductions
• Articles / Jigsaw Activity:
  • You Now Have A Shorter Attention Span Than A Goldfish 
  • Ants, Seaweed, Chocolate Beer And (Maybe) Less Meat: The Future of Food
  • Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic “Island”
  • Pest Control Straight Out of Sci-Fi
  • Global Challenges for Humanity
• Syllabus
• Black Mirror
• DUE THIS WEEK: Please make sure your documents are turned into your green folder.
  • Jigsaw Paper (Four Articles, Notes)

Week Two:

• Attendance
• Grades
• How Many Slaves Work For You? 
  • What Is A Slave? Definitions
  • Discussion
• What It Means To Be Human In The 21st Century: Technology

Week Three:

• Top Science Stories of 2017
• Close Reading: Science and Society
• Black Mirror: Hated In The Nation

Week Four:

• Finish Black Mirror
• Simulation Assignment:https://authoring.concord.org/sequences/385/activities/7650
  • Climate & Crop Growth: In this activity, you will explore climate graphs and interactive computational models to discover how temperature and precipitation affect crop growth. You will explore how the extremes of precipitation (drought and flood) deplete the resources available for plant growth. You will use maps of average precipitation and temperature to predict the suitability of an area for agricultural production.
  • Students will be asked to complete the online module and print their answers.
• Assignment: Should We Be Worried? Please do the assignments listed below. Read the articles and fill out a jigsaw page.
  • Black Mirror Has A Weird Track Record For Predicting Things That Then Come True
    • Please read this article and take jigsaw notes as you read. This article should only take one column on the jigsaw assignment. The other three columns will be used for the next step of the assignment.
  • Reilly Top Ten: 2018 List of Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Issues In Science and Technology 
    • Click on the link above and scan the list of ethical dilemmas.
    • Choose three of the issues on the list. Read your chosen articles carefully and fill out a jigsaw sheet for each of your four three chosen issues.
• How To Grade Your Assignments / What We Are Looking For
  • Crop & Climate Simulations
  • Chosen Articles / What Interests You
  • Bringing It All Together:
• Interstellar
  • Please take notes on what the characters say about what happens to the earth in the  near future. What happened to:
    • Climate?
    • Earth’s Food Supply?
    • Humanity?
• The Science of Interstellar
  • Please click on THIS LINK and explore 4 out of the 5 science topics from Interstellar. As you explore these subjects, please take jigsaw notes. Be sure to place emphasis on science-related vocabulary.

WEEK SIX: 

• Take notes on material presented in the following links. Be sure to pay attention to scientific terms, predictions, and your feelings about what is being presented.
  • The Coming Singularity
  • The Singularity Will Happen by 2045 (article only. don’t watch the embedded videos)
  • What Will Happen Before 2050?
  • How Will Earth Change If All Ice Melts?

WEEK SEVEN:

• Climate Change
• Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
  • Before The Flood
    • Notes on claims made.
  • Special Guest Speaker
• Jigsaw Assignment:
  • Stop Repeating that the “US is the Only Country Not in the Paris Agreement”
  • Is An Ice Age Coming?
    • Focus specifically on scientific terms and concepts covered.
  • Cape Town, South Africa, Braces for water to Run Out in April
  • Find two articles that EXPLORE ONE CLIMATE CHANGE CLAIM of your choice. Look to the white board for inspiration or choose a claim from the film viewed this week. Search the internet for resources and definitely write the title and address for the articles you find on the jigsaw column.